Prioritarianism is a moral view that ranks outcomes according to the sum of a strictly increasing and strictly concave transformation of individual well-being. Prioritarianism is …
Prioritarianism holds that improvements in someone's life (gains in well-being) are morally more valuable, the worse off the person would otherwise be. The doctrine is impartial …
Suppose that you must make choices that may influence the well-being and the identities of the people who will exist, though not the number of people who will exist. How ought you to …
M Otsuka, A Voorhoeve - The Oxford Handbook of Distributive …, 2018 - books.google.com
The history of philosophical discussions about human nature and justice are replete with references to our human needs. 1 Many philosophers believed that what we need to live …
C Knight - Economics & Philosophy, 2022 - cambridge.org
The standard version of sufficientarianism maintains that providing people with enough, or as close to enough as is possible, is lexically prior to other distributive goals. This article …
How rich should the 1% be? And, most importantly, when does the distance in economic resources between the richest citizens and 'us', the average citizenry, become a concern for …
N Holtug - Journal of Political Philosophy, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
I. INTRODUCTION ACCORDING to prioritarianism, roughly, we should give priority to the worse off in the distribution of benefits. This statement of the principle does not tell us …
S Segall - Economics & Philosophy, 2016 - cambridge.org
The paper seeks to defend Telic Egalitarianism (TE) by distinguishing two distinct categories into which typical objections to it fall. According to one category of objections (for example …